Physiological correlates of aesthetic perception of artworks in a museum

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 96-103

  Tschacher, Wolfgang ^a   Kirchberg, Volker ^b   van den Berg, Karen ^c   Greenwood, Steven ^d   Wintzerith, Stéphanie ^d   Tröndle, Martin ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^c ZEPPELIN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d Zeppelin University and University of Applied Science ^*  (Germany)

^e Zeppelin University and University of Applied Science   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Fine art exhibition; Museum research; Physiology of phenomenology; Wireless data acquisition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865086033     PISSN: 19313896     EISSN: 1931390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023845     Document Type: Article

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